African Union Law : The Emergence of a Sui Generis Legal Order

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This book explores the emergence of African Union law as a legal order and its implications for existing order in the region. As an authoritive text on the development of AU law, the book covers such pertinent issues as legislative powers, competences, direct effect in AU law, subsidiarity, interventionism, and enforcement of laws. Olufemi Amao argues how there is a gradual movement from intergovernmentalism to supranationalism in the African Union legal order, and explores how this trajectory gradually and incrementally deemphasises the discourse on nation state sovereignty; a concept that has caused much problem in the African context. Drawing upon EU law as a comparison, the book also examines how the development of supranationalism affects crucial issues such as human rights, democratic reforms, territorial matters, tribal and religious disputes, and economic relations. As a comprehensive examination of the development of law within a union, this book will be of great interest and use to students, scholars and practitioners in international law, international relations, and African studies.show more

About Olufemi Amao

Olufemi is a Lecturer at Brunel Law School and the Director for Undergraduate Studies, Brunel University, London. He is the author of Corporate Social Responsibility, Human Rights and the Law: Multinational Corporations in Developing Countries (Routledge, 2011).show more

Table of contents

1. Introduction 2. The development of the concepts of African Law and African Union Law 3. Sources of African Union Law 4. Membership of the African Union 5. The Institutions of the Africa Union and their roles in the creation and implementation of African Union Law 6. African Economic and Business Law 7. Custom, Morality and African Union Law 8. The Rule of Law and African Union Law (including Peace and Security) 9. Human Rights in the African Union Law 10. Enforcement of African Union Law 11. Conclusions: The Future of African Union Lawshow more